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life from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with international news with you twenty four hours a day the israeli military is converging on gaza or is it continues to pummel the palestinians from. the operation pillar of defense is on the verge of turning into a new invasion as television says it's prepared to go all the way under the pretext of self-defense three israelis and at least fifteen palestinians including children and a pregnant woman have all been killed. he's. been targeted by return far from so tom what is the latest on casualties on both sides and indeed the prospects of that ground invasion of gaza. hi there bill well yes rapidly developing situation here the latest that we know in the last hour or so a massive intensification of israeli bombing over gaza we are reporting here our sources inside garza say that they've heard dozens of explosions rattling

throughout the streets as israeli jets and drones try to really start how marie the infrastructure of what the israelis call the terrorist infrastructure that they say wriggles is riddled throughout the buildings and underground throughout that territory of gaza explosions heard all the way up from the north to the north and west towards the coast where the israeli navy has been involved as well and down towards the border with egypt on the route for crossing there all of this adds to the fear is that a ground invasion may indeed be imminent we've heard and can perform reports unconfirmed reports but your pardon through out the day that israeli tanks and troops have been moving south towards the border but we know that thirty thousand reservists are very likely to be called up and sent down there as well and all of

this adds to the fears of that possible ground invasion so rather like the one that took place a new year two thousand and eight to nine called cast lead back then the operation now called pillars of defense. for their part as well how mass and other militant groups like islamic jihad have been busy firing rockets about over two hundred seventy five the latest count fired across the border from gaza into southern israel two of them a couple of hours ago reaching as far north as israel's second largest city tel aviv. they didn't actually hit the city but but landed close enough to it to really unnerved the israeli population and to anger politicians and a spokesman for the israeli defense establishment here who say there will be retaliation the general for israel's southern command said that earlier today this

is just the beginning of israeli operations all the spokesman i've spoken to have said that this is still early stages of this operation it could go on for some days yet and they have got big plans to try and root out what they call the terrorist infrastructure. in garza how mass have said that israel in starting this bombing campaign have opened the gates of hell and that they will fight to defend the palestinian people from what they call the the israeli occupation and aggression so it seems possible that a ground war is on the cards and if that happens the death and destruction that we saw in operation cast lead in two thousand and eight to nine it seems very likely that that will be repeated parties dumbarton lived there until a bit thanks very much indeed and a human rights activist joe on he's in gaza itself and told us there's evidence to

suggest israeli forces are committing war crimes by targeting civilians with a controversial weapon. late last night i witnessed what i'm pretty sure was the use of white phosphorous and in civilian neighborhood. i spoke as well this morning of the director of al shiva hospital who indicated to me that he thought some of the n.g.o.s he had seen passing through their emergency room were consistent with the use of white phosphorus and he also spoke of the fact that the mounting casualties coring into hospitals throughout the gaza strip are aggravated by the lack of essential medicines and medical supplies caused by israel's ongoing see it's not simply a matter of massive deaths and injuries horrific as that would be in and of itself there is also a lack of the basic necessities needed to treat them so it's a disaster here

a manmade disaster in more ways than one. well reaction and insight now from foreign policy analysts dr shah joins me live in washington well we are receiving unconfirmed reports that israeli ground forces are moving towards gaza can you tell us anything about that and do you think a ground invasion is likely. i don't know more than you know really but it is it is possible all the preparations indicate that they may be ground invasion similar to the one. they took against gaza i think the master of gaza israelis they want to punish the prisoners because really it's an open prison for one point five million human beings they medical care they lack schooling they like food they lack of clean water and that's part and parcel of what they're trying to make them submissive

to their will and desire of having really one large israeli state they are not interested in a two state solution unfortunately is there a mole so to root out those hamas militants after all that's what they tried to do four years ago and failed i mean are they likely to do that this time with that ground invasion. i think that's an excuse to be very honest if you remember in the past two years israel has been killing one to three to five . gazans every week or two or three on the pretense that there is iraq and yes there are islamist jihadist where hamas is the main organization cannot control them but they have been trying to control them as a model they have been under discussion for a permanent cease fire and they have had even fights with them so it's important to note that hamas is the main organization is trying to have

a peaceful relationship really with israel while their. colleagues. and the palestinian authority maybe can negotiate a peace for two state solution i personally doubted if israel is ever interested in a two state solution but what about the us. has it really got control over its militants. still foreign rockets into israel despite the retaliation is getting from israel one of the achieving by doing that. i think in part to be very honest with the arab street spraying. upon us basically and developing well it would behoove them to restrain themselves unfortunately as you know in any country there are few percentage or few hundred who will go haywire and hamas is trying to control them so the

proportionality of the israeli response continuously. having one two three hundred sorties over and over gaza now and killing reports are fifteen and wounding somewhere between forty to one hundred among them women and children is really an out of proportion a lack of action whatsoever under any any moral standards let's let me talk about the wider regional implications but we're getting reports that two rockets narrowly missed tel aviv were actually reportedly made by iran do you think that perhaps israel would want to involve iran here and hold it accountable in being involved with this. well i think the purpose is multifold first they want to kill the g. hardest those extremists as they have been doing a lot but i think also netanyahu wants to help his reelection because a nine week there is a national election and it's really

a message to obama four years ago just the month before he took office they invaded without really any excuse gaza and killed as you know five hundred fifteen hundred and wounded over five thousand so it's really a message to them that we will do what's best in our interest regarding what you say and also it's a message to morsi that's what we're going to do you control hamas as much a much as you can and finally is really what you said it's a message to iran that we are strong and we will respond heavily to your aberrations from what we believe to be in the interest of israel just briefly tensions clearly going to arise between you and tel aviv over this also of course we've got this cross border shelling going on between israel and syria it really is a very precarious situation isn't israel can't really afford to in effect fight

a war in two fronts and also have the added tension from egypt. well i think they're taking a risk of unpredictable dangerous and territories now and they are taking that chance and they think they will come out ahead that's their calculation but i don't think it's in the interest of israeli citizens to have a wider war with the arab nations now where the populace will be demanding action from their government i don't have faith in all arab governments some of them yes i do have faith not to engage militarily but doing gauge in somewhat denuding from the legitimacy the. doctor did it's really interesting to talk to you thank you very much indeed for sharing your thoughts on this life from washington foreign policy i was dr deal thank you. well a little earlier our. colleague rory sushi he spoke to an israeli official who

hailed the ongoing operation in gaza as a success despite the rising number of civilian casualties this is been so far one of the most surgical pinpoint military operations in modern military history i think again you will see that the civilian to militant casualty ratio will show up in israel to have unfortunately killed civilians but far fewer then than any other comparable military. machine but you have a pin point operation you call this one of the most precise and exact and pinpoint military operations that israel's known in recent history and that can allow for what you might consider collateral damage the killing of children when you when you presented and you talk about civilians it's always said as all the civilian the israeli civilians being killed just today the three israelis who were killed but all of the palestinians who were killed seven are confirmed militants to use it like you know you are you. possibly you're just giving rise to anti israeli

attitudes among palestinians let's let's have a listen to this quickly is the hamas leader that we spoke to just a bit earlier please stand by. the assassination of this great leader. clearly confirms that we are still in the heart of resistance with the israeli good we are designers generally knows nothing look the language of killing and the blood of our battle with the enemy is an open bottle to me god willing and all but this battle will end with palestine and jerusalem liberated being what we should wait for action and. we've seen their actions a situation which most often anywhere in the world could accept what would you do were just one missile to land in central moscow where we talk about missiles and let's the scarify here we're talking about more rockets that are being attracted over some some might say that a mortar rocket from the palestinian militants compared to your. health inside why the missiles from your. fighter jet. so well that's quite a big difference between fireworks and bombs but the truth of the matter is that we have a situation where just today three israeli civilians were killed call the mortars

call the missiles those are or did civilians we have a situation where in the recent past some thirty percent of these raby children in southern israel were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder so israel was heavily criticized by a part of the world community i agree with you there i remind you and i point out that that was four years ago the lowest civilian to militant casualty rate in history twenty nine percent of those killed were civilians and i'm not belittling the death of any civilians but far lower than any other military campaign in the last century i think that we will see something similar the start we're hoping to achieve a number of things first and foremost to significantly degrade the command and control and operational abilities of hamas. middle east analyst nathan thrall believes that the israeli government could be staging the conflict with gaza to show its on top of its game has been a great deal of pressure on the israeli government which has looked very impotent

during this escalation and this is not new a year ago in august two thousand and eleven the opposition party was screaming at the top of its lungs that that likud was impotent and that that kadima knew how to handle this problem looking at a region in which there's really public feels imperilled they see mortars coming from from syria they worry about the conflict from syria spreading they worry about rockets from hezbollah and this was one thing that the israeli government could do to show that it is capable of protecting its citizens as as they desire israelis continue to to say that they are ready to to occupy gaza if need be and it's certainly a possibility. europe since back into recession as we report later on here in ulti the sulfur twenty four amika strike sweeps across the european union resulting in

falling clashes with drug police this story in detail for you coming up very shortly. hundreds of thousands of americans follow titian's for a session from the united states bringing in-depth analysis in just a couple of minutes. things are just getting too expensive in london many families just can't afford to live in the city anymore so because of upcoming welfare cuts the government is buying or rented property to relocate people outside of the city the maximum housing allowance for welfare will go down to four hundred pounds a month which is peanuts compared to the one thousand two hundred fifty pounds needed to pay for the average three room apartment expelling the poor from london seems a bit fishy to me so instead of say regulating prices or cock for big using the

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then try. to find out more visit our big teeth don't call. if you just joined us a very warm welcome aarti live here in moscow the eurozone has sunk into its second recession since two thousand and eight that's according to the latest euro stat data the report comes hot on the heels of a twenty four hour strike which saw people in more than twenty european countries take to the streets venting their frustration at spending cuts artie's sarah for.

saying. greece. italy. and portugal. europe's most debt ridden countries join together with many others for the continent's first cross border mega strike from the beginning it was clear that emotions were running high in many places the dreadful violence and asked a brief calm broke. testing every day for various things between the protesters and the right places plus the right almost free the center it's not really get more symbolic candy for the feast of by the people say there are right now all across there are train their governments and between the people themselves this is why the austerity but that is. where the bullets and violent confrontations with the authorities are becoming in o.t. familiar sights consonance leaders stand firm the disparity is

a necessary evil to cut the sky high deficit only event of the fourteenth the people of europe seem to have formed a county union to fight back against the prevailing title sterrett city ahead of next week's budget meeting for us is will be watching closely as the scenes of police and protesters battling one another played out across the nobel peace prize winning. in madrid the clean up operation is already under way only it was so easy for the year raising to clean up the mess it finds itself in. the trade. some of the more well off countries like france and belgium also saw mass marches of striking workers doc last season sociologist in barcelona he took part in wednesday's strike so it's not the cut what they target the triggers popular on rest. a protest isn't about a solution a protest is normally about something you don't want so in this case what they're

protesting is easy to austerity is cuts in social spending and cuts in social rights and the expansion of social misery people can make the argument that austerity is a solution to the current problems being faced by your the european citizenry and in particular by the southern european citizenry the problem is what does that austerity mean is that neoliberal e.u. austerity where you cut basically all of those all of the social protection that keeps people from descending down to a sort of downward spiral of social misery and with all of that escalating conflict or do you leave social protection in place and cut in places where there really is overspending such as bank bailouts and and and areas like these.

at least seven hundred thousand u.s. citizens of signed online petitions calling for their states to peacefully separate from the union many are unhappy with the outcome of the recent presidential election which saw president obama prolong his residency in the white house but activists are right of attack the system dot com keith preston thinks the succession gains momentum as a society in the us is increasingly torn apart with political and cultural divisions. but question is whether the united states in its present form is sustainable for an indefinite period of time there are many people who would say no that's certainly not the case because we look at things like the fiscal the economic bankruptcy of the united states we look at its military overseas military empire and the question of military overstretch we look at the ever more divisive cultural and social and ethnic issues that are currently plaguing our society we look at the widening class divisions that we see going on this well i mean what we

see is a society that in many ways is becoming ever more divided over time along all sorts of cultural and economic and demographic lines so unless you believe that the united states can continue in that kind of direction for an indefinite period of time it's certainly plausible to start taking a look at alternatives like succession and maybe scaling back into smaller political units of the type that some of these movements like the second from vermont republic advocate. china's weeklong power transfer has come to an end with xi jinping being anointed the communist party's next leader he takes over from huge and his guidance led beijing through a good decade of rapid growth and sort overtake japan as the world's second largest economy live now to canada generous or good us for more perspective on this eric now we know who will govern china in the coming decade just how much change are we likely to see from beijing. it's very hard to tell you know the rise of. china was widely expected no surprise there

comes from what is believed to be a conservative background he represents a conservative. fraction of the chinese leadership. he was anointed by hours the r.t. so we can expect from what we know so far much change and you know very little about how these comments like many of the chinese leaders the last chinese leader down very personality. is now facing criminal charges so the new government is going to be status quo but more refined. development maybe a loosening of political rights and so i try to mention criminal charges there corruption of course big problem there in the country do you think she's jumping will have any success in tackling that. oh he may have sung i would think so he could put

a lot of fear into ruling circles and in china corruption will be screaming are too rude. not to have a free press we don't really have free judiciary. caught by the communist party itself. scandals i find what is interesting though is less than the last the change our former president. jennings held on for two more years control of the central mu terry commission which is really the control of trying to suit the military this time who didn't relinquished control of the commission and gave it to xi jinping which puts him in a position of unprecedented hour in chinese all the levers controllers hants about the economics. of the course that china will overtake the us economically in about

four years from now what's going to do about that what it try and contain beijing in some way well yes the u.s. is adopted a policy of containment so of the soviet union in the one nine hundred fifty s. shoring up its political alliances it's really position in the military forces in the region president obama announced the pivot towards asia so this is very clear china is just the just announced that they are expanding the navy as a priority we're looking at something that looks like a contest we germany and britain before world war one it's a worry hopefully it will. but it's because it's quite a comparison isn't it i mean do you really think it could lead to some pretty intense problems over the next few years i mean what about military build ups here

. well we are the u.s. cannot defeat china in a war off the coast of china but the u.s. isn't ours driven deeper into the pacific but one of the dangers of this. america's allies know who really ran. to danger is drawn with china right now over the same kind who islands and war could break out there should be good to go any day we want but america then could be drawn by japan's fighting china america could be drawn into the conflict as it could be with. south korea so while america is worrying about being drawn into a war against iran by israeli action it's now going to worry about what the japanese are going to do eventually south korea that of course different really differing views over what's going to go on with south korea north korea of course some china's trying to denuclearize the north korean peninsula and now of course

you've got the u.s. backing south korea with its ballistic missile range in tension so that's an air of tension isn't it always danger i've been up on the militarized zone or a number of times and under it once and tunnels built by the north koreans. you know there are millions of men ready to go war that are few hours notice so it's a very dangerous situation and the u.s. and south korea keep holding these military exercises quite close that north korea which makes crazy and it tends to provoke incidents so the chances of war there are high work worries the u.s. of course is that north korea's missiles were inaccurate as they are threaten japan and all going to our air and. it's not another we're really interested the thoughts on this eric thanks very much indeed for joining us live there from kind of that everybody go to. developing it live here in moscow.